Spong: Just beware that if you shift from a pay monthly plan to a new carryover minutes plan, you'll lose any carryover minutes you've accumulated.

Shouldn't take long to build them back up though, with the whole monthly allocations being able to roll over on the new plans.

That explains something - I downgraded my plan from $89 to $39 online on friday and called in on saturday to confirm that I am still gonna get the 1GB bonus data on the $39 plan (when the plan rolls over on 4th Feb - today) and the person who answered my call confirmed that I was getting the 1GB bonus on top of 100MB which is allocated to $39 plan but was adamant that I was not going to get the accumulated rollover minutes.. (that didnt really matter coz $39 plan still comes with heaps of minutes)

So this was probably their new plans that he was talking about.. Ah well.. I did the plan change 1-2 days earlier and so got to keep my minutes and got the 1GB bonus per month on the $39 plan..

Let me start at the beginning: My 6months are up on my grossly underused $89 plan.So I logged in to my2degrees to change my plan on Saturday (2 Feb) to the old $29 plan, they prompted me to "update my details", good idea (since I'm moving house this week), so I updated my address, and it says "thanks we have updated your details". Sweet, all done.

So I hit confirm: "your plan will be changed 4 march". Come on!I think: 'damnit! ...oh well, who cares. No hang on, I do, it is $60, and I need the money. So I will ring up". After some explaining and checking: "I'm sorry sir but I have 'cross-checked' and we cannot update your plan this month because you have already been billed..." (Less than hours ago. And actually I haven't received any bill)So I'll have to bite it. $60 hurts, but isn't worth the stress, me thinks... big faceless company can have this one...

But no, now you tell me, I will lose my (1400) now 1800 saved up minutes in March too!? Seriously?I saw absolutely nothing about the terms of the new plans on my change plan process online, neither heard about them from the helpful phone lady. Yes, I now see them on the main 2degrees website, but only after reading some posts here, and if I wasn't a GZ reader I'd have no clue until I lost my preciouses minuteses next month!

Just a couple of points, customers on the retired Pay Monthly plans will still get their current rates if they go over.

You have more Carryover Minutes in these new plans so there's less likelihood of going over but as always we recommend having Spend Control to make sure you don't go over a set limit.

All data included on Pay Monthly and Carryover plans data is and has always been National Data, that can be used on our canopy or national roaming network.

Hope you like the new Carryover plans! Cheers! ^POB

Well I personally don't but that's me. $39 for 120 minutes and 100 bonus was just fine for me and I was struggling with keeping in the 1.1GB of data. 750MB would be even harder and having 220 minutes doesn't really help in that area.

I would hardly ever get into my bonus minutes a month and would normally be carrying over minutes.

At least I get the chance to keep my (grandfathered) plan.

As for international calls I never make them over the voice network so the increases in that area are not an issue.